Grand!
but it was 1876
/history pedant
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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this,
Fri 2 Nov 2007, 13:27,
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This is an alternate reality
in which the Belgians finished their machine a year early, and Queen Victoria did not manage to cover up the nefarious plots of her fellow Saxe-Coburgs.
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Pelle ghola,
Fri 2 Nov 2007, 13:36,
archived)